Extract from Memoirs of a Monticello Slave

Mr. Jefferson was a tall strait-bodied man as ever you see, right square-shouldered:
Nary a man in this town walked so straight as my old master: neat a built man as ever
was seen in Vaginny, I reckon or any place—a straight-up man: long face, high nose.

MS (ViU). Published in Rayford W. Logan, ed., Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac,
one of Thomas Jefferson’s Slaves (Charlottesville, 1951), 21.